antimicrobial resistance New paper: Validation of an optimized Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow versus Illumina for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture Philip Fowler, 24th August 202624th August 2026 Most genetic sequencing of Mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has for historical reasons used short-read technology,… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New preprint: using genetics to analyse ESBL infections in a neonatal ICU ward Philip Fowler, 7th July 20267th July 2026 In this preprint, Melody Parker as part of her DPhil, has analysed a series of… Continue Reading
New preprint: ONT sequencing is comparable to Illumina sequencing for M. tuberculosis Philip Fowler, 9th April 20269th April 2026 In this preprint, we compare the differences when Mycobacterial samples are sequenced with either long-… Continue Reading
clinical microbiology New paper: Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny Philip Fowler, 9th February 20269th February 2026 Zam Iqbal, at the University of Bath, led this epic study published today in Nature… Continue Reading
New preprint: evaluating a laboratory workflow for sequencing Mycobacteria using long-read sequencing Philip Fowler, 7th February 20269th April 2026 In this preprint, we describe and evaluate a laboratory workflow for sequencing Mycobacterial samples using… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New paper: how well can we predict AMR in tuberculosis samples? Philip Fowler, 16th December 202516th December 2025 This paper just published in Microbial Genomics examines how well our software tool, gnomonicus, predicts… Continue Reading